“Because you have acted like a wanton prostitute – a seductive mistress who practices sorcery, who enslaves nations by her harlotry, and entices peoples by her sorcery –

The just Lord resides within her; he commits no unjust acts. Every morning he reveals his justice. At dawn he appears without fail. Yet the unjust know no shame.

On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the Lord spoke again through the prophet Haggai:

Then take some silver and gold to make a crown and set it on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen.

But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain.

He came to a town called Nazareth and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus would be called a Nazarene.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur.

People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!”

Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’ When it returns, it finds the house empty, swept clean, and put in order.

When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.

And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.

He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,